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GLOVE.

Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

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GLOVE;

No. 373,470; Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

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DAVID S. MORRISON, OF GRINNELL, IOWA.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,470, dated November 22, 1887.

Application filed August 24, 1886. Serial No. 2 1,724. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID S. MORRISON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grinnell, in the county of Poweshiek, State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to gloves, and among the objects in view are the provision of a glove which can be economically manufactured and which shall possess the characteristic of having those parts thereof which are subjected to the severest wear when in use made from the better quality of material, and which shall also possess the characteristic of being capable of being readily put on and removed and fastened and unfastened, thereby rendering it especially adapted for the use of brakemen, drivers, ball-catchers, and others whg use gloves for limited and successive pemm s.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are plans of the wrist portion of a glove constructed in accordance with my invention. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of modifications. Fig. 5 is a general view in plan of the wrist portion with the thumb turned over. Fig. 6 is a pattern for the back of the second finger. thumb and the thumb-gore. Fig. 8 is the gore. Fig. 9 is the palm-piece, and Fig. 10 the back piece of the third finger.

Like lertersindicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The palm-piece A is cut with the front of the first and fourth fingers, A A*, respectively, integral therewith, and the front of the second finger, A and third finger, A as well as the front of the thumb A Instead of cutting an entire piece from the palm to make the thumb-hole, as heretofore practiced, the thumb front A formed as a part of the palm, is turned down, and a thumbback, B, (see Fig. 7,) having a thumb-gore, B, thereon, is seamed to the thumb on the Fig. 7 is a pattern for the back of the lines 1, 2, 3, and 4, and to the palm-piece along the lines 1 and 5, leaving the edge 4 and 6 to be seamed to one edge of the gore J, the opposite edge of the gore being seamed along thelines 4t and 7 of the palm-piece. The back of the second finger, O, is at one edge seamed along the lines 8 and 9 on the first finger, and the opposite edge to the back D of the third finger, which is seamed at the opposite edge along the lines 10 and 11 of the back of the fourth finger, A. By this conformation and connection of the several parts constituting the glove, it will be seen that I produce a thumb (the inner part of which bears almost the entire wear of the thumb) which is not only integral with the palm-piece, thereby being of the better grade of stock to stand the wear to which it is subjected, but it is produced without removing bodily from the wearing portion of the palm any of the material thereof, and without materially cutting into the palm in order to open out the glox e to facilitate putting iton. It will also be seen that the enlargementof the wrist portion to facilitate putting the glove on is not only not accomplished by cutting into the palm portion of the glove, nor by provid ing a gore in the wrist opposite the thumb, but I produce this enlargement of the wrist by locating the gore at the thumb side and upon the back of the wrist. Furthermore, it will be found that the most economical use and consumption of a skin results from the dispo sition of the stock as practiced in this my invention, in that after having cut from that portion of a skin where the better grade of 85 stock is located as many palm-pieces as possible the remaining portions of the skin are naturally left of such sizes and shapes as to readily produce the remaining separate pieces comprised in the glove cut in accordance with my invention.

By reference more particularly to Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, which represent the wrist portion of a glove constructed in accordance with my invention in various positions, it will be seen that it is readily adapted for the application thereto of a convenient fastening de vice. In one instance said device may conconsist of a cord, K, passing through apertures K provided or not, as desired, with eyelets K, formed in the gore'piece J and in the parts adjacent thereto, as shown, eyelets K also being provided in said adjacent parts. The cord is first passed through the thumbback B into the glove and out through the apertures K in the gore, and again into the glove through the apertures K where the knot K is formed, which maybe utilized to adjust the length of the cord to adapt the wrist portion of the glove to wrists of different sizes. The loop, of the cord is provided with a catchpiece, K by which it may bedrawn and passed over the button K whereby the gore is folded and closed within the wrist.

Instead of the cord, any suitable glovefastener may he applied to the glove by simply providing a flap, K as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the buttons K being adapted to enter the button-receiving portion K of the fastener; or, if desired, any other well-known fastening devices than those herein shown may be employed.

to facilitate the putting on and the removal of 3 5 the glove, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID S. MORRISON.

\Nitnesses:

CHARLES J. BAYER, ABEL O. ARMSTRONG. 

